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| John Clark Collection |
The meeting place of the Volksraad of the Republic Natalia, here shown, stood at the corner of Church Street and Commercial Road in Pietermaritzburg, where the City Hall now stands. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Ifafa beach cottage, 1891 |
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| John Clark Collection |
Fort Napiers earliest strucrure, one of two redoubts built about 1845-4 by Royal Engineers attached to the 4th Regt. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Battle of Isandlwana: Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill VC was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Langalibalele |
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| John Clark Collection |
Jan Schheper's farm, Biggarsberg, A voortrekker farm seen in 1853 ans sketched by John Moreland, Byrne Settler agent |
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| John Clark Collection |
A Victorian book illustration of some 30 Boer wagons in laager beside a river. Tents have been erected both inside and outside the laager. Black servants are drawing water and the oxen are grazing or drinking. the surrounding area is completely treeless. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Kelso Grove, Umzinto residence |
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| John Clark Collection |
Theophilus Shepstone (1811-93). His first visit toNatal was not a very suspicious one. Not only had he to leave his young bride but when at Port Natal he was physically unwell and 'overcome by melancholy'. In addition he had a narrow escape from being the tale. |
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| John Clark Collection |
Battle of Isandlane: Liet.Teignmouth Melvill VC was an officer in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces |
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| John Clark Collection |
Port & City Hotel, Longmarket Street, Peitermaritzburg |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sir Henry Bale. Deputy Governor Administrator |
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| John Clark Collection |
With the outbreak of the war, a strong vein of Victorian sentiment rose to the surface in the popular press. This picture is entitled 'The last embrace' |
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| John Clark Collection |
A war artist's sketch of the 24th REgiment enjoying a wayside halt. Among the figures are officers, colonists acting as guides, and Zulu women and boys selling milk, etc. Nearly every soldier pictured here was to die at Isandhlwana. |
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| John Clark Collection |
View from verandah of the original Umzinto lodge, 1880s |
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| John Clark Collection |
Sir George Grey |
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| John Clark Collection |
King Cetywayo received as a personal gift from the Queen a three-handled beer mug made by a London silversmith and capable of holding a considerable volume of beer. |
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| John Clark Collection |
R. D. Clark's old house. R. D. Clark, headmaster of Maritzburg College, 1879-1901 lived here in the 1880s |
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| John Clark Collection |
Don Moodle |
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| John Clark Collection |
Weenen in 1853, a pencil sketch from the field notebook of John Moreland, Byrne settler agent. It is probably the first drawing of this Vootrekker township |